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19 Int'l J. Legal Prof. 1 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/injlepro19 and id is 1 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION, 2012 Routledge Vol. 19, No. 1, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09695958.2012.779064 Editorial AVROM SHERR Newman rehearses arguments between two sets of researchers into the conduct of legal defence in England and Wales: McConville et al. who found such services poor and Travers who had a more positive perception of criminal defence. Like his forbears Newman's methodology involves an ethnographic study which he reports, his findings supporting the McConville thesis - there is a marked difference between what the lawyers say they do and what they actually do in performance. Biland and Vanneuville provide an unusual insight into the influence of law and jurists in the French administration. They examine the teaching of legistics in the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, the main school for top French civil servants. Legistics promotes the political utility of law and complies with managerial values and a Weberian model of bureaucracy. It has encouraged new techniques of legal drafting and renews legal legitimacy in the reform of public affairs. Gordon, Shackel and Mark are concerned with the speed of development of new technologically advanced forms of legal services, such as outsourcing, virtual law firms and social networking. They argue that existing approaches to ethical standards, pro- fessional responsibility and regulation of legal practices, which reflect the normative values and methodologies of traditional legal practice and professionalism, are in urgent need of recalibration in order to maintain consumer confidence and protec- tion, encourage appropriate competition practices in the legal services marketplace and provide suitable guidance to the profession on ethical dilemmas. Campbell and Charlesworth consider billable hours from the perspective of the sociology of work. They look at the causes of working time patterns of salaried lawyers. They conclude that billable hours are now primarily a mechanism of manage- ment control, which acts to transmit pressure on salaried solicitors, rather than being a method of deciding costs. Good representation here from England and Wales, France and Australia. ( 2012 Taylor & Francis